創立推特不為錢
Dolly and Duke are having a lunch break.
多莉和杜克現在是午餐休息時間。
be V-ing 現在進行式(正在…)
Duke: Hey, what are you reading?
杜克：嘿，你在看什麼呀？
Dolly: It’s a news report about Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Can you guess how much he gets paid annually?
多莉：這是一篇關於推特執行長多爾西的新聞報導。你猜得到他年薪多少嗎？
report(n.)報導pay-paid-paidget V-pp 被動語態(被…)get paid=earnannually(adv.)每年地=yearly, every year
Duke: Hmm… I don’t know, but I’m guessing that it’s a huge sum of money?
杜克：嗯……我不知道，但我猜是一筆驚人的數目吧？
sum(n.)總額
Dolly: You’ll be surprised, but Twitter only paid him a total of $1.40 in the year 2018.
多莉：出乎我們意料的，推特2018年總共只付給他1.40美元。
surprised(adj.)意外的、驚訝的=open-moutheda total of總共=a sum of, an amount of
Duke: Are you saying that he only got paid $1.40 the whole year? You must be joking.
杜克：你是說他一整年只得到1.40美元？你在開玩笑！
joke(v.)開玩笑、說笑話=kid
Dolly: No, I’m not. The $1.40 is actually symbolic, in that it stands for Twitter’s 140-character limit per tweet back in 2017. Since up to 280 characters are allowed per tweet this year, maybe he’ll get $2.80.
多莉：我沒有哦。這1.40美元實際上是象徵性的，代表著過去2017年每則貼文140個字元的上限。但既然今年的上限是280個字元，也許他將會拿到2.80美元。
symbolic(adj.)象徵性的in that因為、由於=becausestand for sth.代表=represent, meancharacter(n.)字母、字元limit(n.)限制、上限tweet(n.)推特貼文allow(v.)允許
Duke: Wow, that’s hard to believe. Why did he earn so little?
杜克：那真令人難以置信，但他為何賺這麼少呢？
little(adv.)(pron.)不多、很少
Dolly: Well, he says that he founded Twitter not to make money for himself, but to offer great service and create value for users.
多莉：嗯，他說他創立推特並不是為了要賺錢，而是想提供人們很棒的服務並為使用者創造價值。
found(v.)建立、創建=establishhimself(pron.)他自己create(v.)創造value(n.)價值